Lt. Commander Data
Operations Officer, USS Enterprise
Data is perhaps the most unique officer aboard the Enterprise, or in Starfleet altogether. Data is one of only a few sentient, life-like Androids created by Noonian Soongh. Data was discovered by Starfleet and was studied by them. Data was allowed to enter the Academy and become a Starfleet officer. Data's circuitry and positronic brain are extremely complex and cannot be easily repaired or replicated. He is also equipped with an off switch that is only known by a handful of people, including Beverly Crusher and best friend Geordi La Forge. Data was able to meet his "family" in that he discovered and assembled his "twin" android Lore. He also met his maker, Noonian Soongh, shortly before he was killed by Lore. Lore also took the emotion chip that Soongh had created for Data, but eventually Data was able to retrieve it and install it. Interestingly, Data found another Soongh-type android named B-4 on Kolarus III. The very primitive android was not as developed as Data, and he had a hard time teaching B-4 in the lessons of humanity. Data did transfer his memory to the other android shortly before he sacrificed himself to save Picard and the crew.
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